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Role
Web developer
Contribute user
These roles vary from organization to organization. In smaller organizations and workgroups, a
single person may handle the job of administering Contribute and determining the design of the
website. Larger workgroups and departments may have a team of people involved in maintaining
their website.
Deployment tasks
The following table describes the tasks you need to perform to successfully deploy Contribute.
Task
Gather website
information
Configure network and
server permissions
Install Contribute
Install Contribute
Publishing Services
(optional)
Configure Contribute to
work with your website
Function
Develops web-based applications, such as for absence reporting and
financial reporting, distributed to users over the web.
Contribute users range widely in their job tasks and computer experience.
What they have is common is the need to update web page content
quickly and easily. Using Contribute, they can easily connect to a website
and safely update its content without inadvertently introducing
malfunctions.
Description
Gather information about your website's infrastructure. You'll need this
information to properly install and configure Contribute.
For more information, see
Ensure that the network and server permissions allow read, write, and
modify access so that Contribute users can connect to the site and
update pages.
For more information, see
permissions" on page
9.
Install Contribute on the computer from which you'll administer the site,
create a connection to the website using Contribute, and establish
yourself as the Contribute administrator for the site.
To learn more about creating an administrative connection, see
"Contribute administrative connections" on page
Contribute Publishing Services (CPS) is a suite of Java server
applications that lets you integrate Contribute with Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) or Active Directory services, and implement e-
mail notifications to keep Contribute users informed about the status of
their drafts in progress.
If you want to use the CPS, you must install and configure the Publishing
Service server on a Java application server.
For more information, see
After you establish yourself as an administrator of a site, you can
configure the administrative settings so that Contribute works more
efficiently with your website.
For more information, see
on page
10.
"Information about your website" on page
"Understanding network and server
"Contribute Publishing Services" on page
"About Contribute administrative settings"
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